00:00Alan, I'll start with you. I'm wondering how the stunts and training you did for War Machine
00:04compared to your experience with Reacher. Is there anything specific you found challenging
00:09or different about the action in this film? You know, this War Machine really takes the
00:13physicality to another level. We don't go to as many practical locations and do nearly as many
00:19extreme physical stunts on Reacher. It's, you know, Reacher's difficult and there's a lot of
00:25action, but it's more fight-based usually. You know, this, we were getting blown off mountains
00:30and, you know, jumping into Class 5 Rapids and getting thrown around the inside of a, you know,
00:36the steel hull of a, you know, a big Humvee, you know, so it's like the Guardian and, you know,
00:41so there's like, there's just another level to this and, you know, you could feel it in the body.
00:46I mean, I was like, you know, it takes a lot out of me to shoot Reacher, but this was,
00:50this one almost got me. But not yet and we're happy to hear it. For both of you, one of
00:55the
00:55scenes that really blew my mind in the movie is when 81 walks the length of the pool underwater
00:59carrying weights and then I read, like, the press notes said that you really did that.
01:0757! Out of my car! 15! Out! 44! Out!
01:17So my question for Alan is just how, and then my question for Patrick is like,
01:21how did you set up and film that sequence?
01:24I'm asking myself the same question. I can't do, I can't hold my breath for like 10 seconds.
01:28I tried playing it with my kids in the pool. I can't do it. And I was honestly, I was
01:32so nervous
01:33that day going in. I'm not like, I don't usually get nervous doing stunts. I was nervous doing that
01:37because I thought I wasn't going to be able to give the camera what it needed to like get the
01:40shot.
01:41And somehow it just kept trucking underwater. Like I was like, not going to let myself ruin that shot
01:46because I... Alan walked so far. He ended up walking the entire length of the pool
01:50and walked into our camera operator that had nowhere left to go and...
01:54Is that true?
01:55Yeah, we got the footage. He walked straight into the lens
01:58because he wasn't wearing goggles and he couldn't see.
02:00And I was like...
02:04I mean, you have to see the film to know what that scene's about.
02:07But I was like, why is Alan doing it for real?
02:11I'm like, he knows we're acting and pretending here, right?
02:15Another standout scene for me in the film was the low point near the end of the movie
02:20where we've got 81 in the mud. He finally breaks down.
02:22We think he might finally quit.
02:33Can you tell me both about like creating that moment
02:35and Alan for finding the emotional heart of that scene?
02:39Oh, well, you know, look, I think the emotional heart of this movie
02:42in that scene, you know, comes from Patrick.
02:45That's, you know, if there's anything you connect to on the screen,
02:48the brotherly love, that thread that weaves its way throughout the film
02:53in such a beautiful way, you know, that's all Patrick.
02:56So I can't, you know, I'm just there trying to bring that to life.
02:58But the tough thing about that scene is we had to do it twice.
03:03We had to do that twice. We came back to do reshoots, remember?
03:05No, no, no. We did the rainmaker and then we came back to do the part
03:10where I'm like laying down to do the rain again
03:12because we just wanted to do, we just wanted to take another pass
03:15at the emotion of it.
03:16And so I remember we were just out in the cold
03:20and under those rainmakers for a while
03:22and trying really hard to get that scene right.
03:24I'm glad. I love the way it turned out.
03:25I think it's so, it's just enough of what you need to really tell that story.
03:29But that, we put some effort into getting that one.
03:32The movie very much sets up a sequel, maybe even a franchise.
03:35Tens of thousands of machines are coming, we've heard.
03:37So for both of you, do you want to do a sequel?
03:39And what ideas do you have?
03:42It's already done. It's already, we're already ready to shoot.
03:46Look, if that opportunity came up, then yeah, look,
03:49I know exactly where I want to take it
03:52and what that brought us story.
03:54We absolutely love the character of 81.
03:57And really, for me, I wanted to tell a film
04:00that started with the micro and ended with the macro.
04:03And I thought that was a really sort of unique take
04:05on the sort of genre that we were working in.
04:09And, you know, let's see what happens.
04:12Yeah, 81 goes to Paris and he stays at Le Bristol
04:14and he gets that really lovely chicken truffle soup that they have.
04:1881 goes to the Amalfi Coast in summer.
04:20Wow, just like Mary King and Ashley.
04:22I love it.
04:23Yeah, yeah.
04:24And maybe we'll learn 81's name in the sequel.
04:27Do you, does he have a name?
04:28Maybe, okay.
04:29I'm not telling you.
04:30It's Jack Reacher.
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